Betty Keira picked up our sister, Betty Suzanne, from the airport on Friday then drove up to my place - leaving her family to fend for themselves. We had a wonderful weekend, chock full of jewelry crafting, sewing, shopping and Bollywood watching. Not to worry, Dear Reader, we didn't forget you.
I'd like to introduce something that I call, The Betty Neels Collection. Several one-of-a-kind necklaces that were lovingly handcrafted by the Founding Bettys for a few lucky Bettys.
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| Photography is obviously NOT one of Betty Debbie's talents. |
We are planning ahead for May - The Great Betty Talent Show! Get out your paintbrushes, your knitting needles, your embroidery floss, your rhyming dictionaries...whatever and wherever your talent lies - we'd love to have you share it! Our only rule is that you should find some way to apply it to the World of Neels.
More details (and hopefully better pictures)to follow...
You mean I have to create something to "win" Fate is Remarkable? My fan fiction from two years ago isn't enough?
ReplyDeleteI know, I'll knit a scarf! (I've been doing that for months just because they're easy, which isn't quite what The Great Betty usually has her heroines working on.)
I think I have made enough samplers....for now. Perhaps I need an uncrushable jersey dress?
ReplyDeleteHow very fun!! My creative arts are a it rusty, but I'm thinking!
ReplyDeleteOooo! Betty Debbie, these prizes look fabulous! I'm almost tempted to enter the contest if I weren't so uncreative. Instead, how about I volunteer Betty Cindy (was it Betty Cindy?) to create another bobble head?
ReplyDeleteHey, does my lovingly crafted RDD Bobblehead qualify??
DeleteI could, I suppose, create an Araminta to stand alongside him...Does anyone know where he is now?
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I wish I were creative. I mean I am. Or, I can be, if and when the muse hits me. I would love to win
ReplyDeleteCaroline's >^.^< mrouw--
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What a lovely collection!!!
Betty Anonymous
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Very cool.
DeleteBetty Magdalen
Two of my comments wiped out again. Sniff. And I did not save a copy. Sniff. Now I have to write it all over again - sniff - just because somebody objected to the HUGE CASTLE I had copied and pasted into it. The graphic had worked beautifully (well, the second time, when I hadn't erased some of the lines.) And the comments appeared later in the RECENT COMMENTS section and I could see the tops of the crenellations. I thought it sooo cute. Sniff. Oh, well.
ReplyDeleteI wish I were creative. I mean I am. Or, I can be if and when the muse hits me. I would love to win
Caroline's >^.^< mrouw--
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Lucy's locket
or
Henrietta's Own ♜Castle♜
or ...
I wish I were creative.
What a lovely collection!!!
Betty Anonymous
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Betty Anonymous
He! Now what happened. Now they are back! I don't believe it!!!
ReplyDeleteMysterious are the ways of Blogger.
ReplyDeleteI adore your castle...and frankly find you very creative.
Your computer art castle is now officially entered into the running!
Betty Debbie,
DeleteThere is but one problem: It's not my castle. I just copied and pasted it from the HUGE CASTLE link above. Here it is in writing:
http://freecodesource.com/facebook-symbols/sand-castle
So I'm afraid it doesn't count as an entry.
But there is still a lot of time for me to come up with an idea of my own.
And, hey, I must have seen you on Conquering the World - going round and round and round... You must have been quite dizzy.
Betty Anonymous
If I perform an intepretive dance and nobody sees, does it win a prize?
ReplyDeleteProof, proof, proof!! hahahahahahahahahaha
DeleteYou girls are so funny.
DeleteBetty Anonymous
Hmm, I could belly dance, but I'm scratching my head as to how I can tie that into dear Betty.
DeleteRegarding The Betty Neels Collection, what's the deadline?
ReplyDeleteBetty Anonymous
I'm thinking mid-June...so, let's make it official - all entries in by midnight-ish June 15th. (And by midnight-ish, I totally mean before I wake up the next morning around 6am.)
DeleteI still haven't got around to tackling my project. In the meantime, I suggest we enter ℬetty Kylene's Don't you swear your ℬeastly Dutch Oaths at me.
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ReplyDeleteDearest Betty Debbie if you please
ReplyDeleteaccept my entry to your competition: these
brightly colored flowcharts recently inspired
by Betty JoDee, who hereon inquired
whether there exists a chart or diagram
to show when Eliza, Max, Sarah and Adam
and friends recur post-HEA in later novels Neels.
Well now there does. Wheels within wheels:
though I’m no craft-er, I surmise,
these charts may come in handy. I hope I win a prize!
Thank you for your consideration,
Betty van den Betsy
I haven't been able to open your brightly colored flowcharts yet...when I go to them Google Docs tells me that I don't have permission. (BTW, you're pretty much already a shoe-in for a prize, based on your Betty By the Numbers series).
DeleteWell, beastly Dutch oath. I forgot to make it share-sies. It should be accessible now. Incidentally, if I'd known BbtN was eligible for the prize, I'm not sure I'd have created this silliness.
DeleteBut it's awesome silliness on an awesomely awesome scale.
DeleteBetty Barbara here--
DeleteMy eyes are bleeding!! But I'm not really complaining. That is AWESOME!!!!
OOh, ooh, ooh, I LOVE IT! New Betty JoDee Goal for This Summer: Read the arrowed flow chart in order! Yeah! What fun! Thank u, thank u, thank u!
DeleteThank you, Betty v.d.Betsy! My first post ever on TUJD asked about a list of crossovers, and finally I have it in visual! I am a visual person, and while I have a list of BN books with arrows everywhere, it is nowhere as pretty or comprehensive as yours.
DeleteWow, that chart is totally awesome. Love the colour scheme, so one (being ungrammatically me) can see which books were published in the same year. Ha, and all those lines, dotted and otherwise! Didn’t know some of them had so many cameos! Brilliant. Not silly at all – au contraire, scientific precision! Genius!
DeleteBetty Anonymous
Spectacular.....from someone who spent 21 years as a "PowerPoint Ranger" (the Army is run by slide presentations). This beats anything the Pentagon can produce!
DeleteThis chart is awesome! Beyond awesome!
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Well, thank you everyone. I'm delighted that you enjoyed my offering. Be sure you've looked at page two, which eliminates all of the non-crossover books to make the trails a bit clearer. I had to size this to 11x17 to cram in all the novels - if Betty'd been a tad less prolific, the chart would be easier to read.
ReplyDeleteMy only talent is shopping....but may I direct your attention to an Uncrushable Jersey Dress that is flattering to those of us with ample curves? It even runs large, we are advised to order one size smaller than normal....
ReplyDeletehttp://shop.nordstrom.com/s/suzi-chin-for-maggy-boutique-front-knot-jersey-dress/3287600?origin=category&fashionColor=&resultback=1708
In case anyone missed the memo, the deadline for winning one of these beauties has been extended to next week...June 26th or 27th.
ReplyDeleteWas that June 26/27 of 2012? Or 2013?
DeleteBetty Debbie, ducking her head in shame...Yes, 2012...
DeleteSo sorry we've gotten behind (this is not very much Betty Keira's fault). In my defense, the van der Stevejinck home is getting a pretty extreme landscape/hardscape makeover and we're still in the midst of it all. All of this weeding/planting/concrete-ing/deck demolition/deck building/etc.../etc.../etc...all to prepare for a wedding in our backyard two weeks from tomorrow.
What I wouldn't give to have a not-so-old family retainer in the form of a gardener/handyman right now. I have a brown thumb, lucky for me it's been a rainy summer here in Washington - everything is still pretty much green and growing in spite of my efforts.
Oh, yay! A backyard wedding! Were you thinking you wouldn't have enough to do what with stuffing finger sandwiches, arranging bouquets and wrangling flower-girls and page-boys, so you might as well throw a nice construction site into the middle of everything? Seriously, my family tradition around backyard weddings is to try to get the lawn mowed and the laundry line down before the guests arrive. Good luck and good weather -- in Ireland people put the Child of Prague (don't know him) out in the garden the day before a wedding to ensure no rain. The literal efficacy of this approach has not been verified...
DeleteI've made a list of wedding assignments for all of my sisters...plus my daughter and daughter-in-law. My sons are helping me out with the landscaping, and Dr. van der Stevejinck is over construction.
DeleteAll of our landscaping/construction is long overdue, the wedding is just an excuse to finally get it done.
The Child of Prague or The Infant Jesus of Prague
DeletePhotogallery/infopage from Prague
Awww, they have different little robes for him! Beautiful church.
The Infant of Prague Irish Customs
Wikipedia: Infant Jesus of Prague